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...Thanks to Monet, the British art historian Kenneth Clark said, “every day we pause with joy before some effect of light which we should otherwise have passed without notice”....
...It was somewhat incongruous given the enthusiasm seen minutes earlier that helped set records for artists like Jackson Pollock....
...Kenneth Boulding, who headed the American Economic Association in 1968, offered a pungent take on this point of view: “Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite...
...In 2016, he paid $500m to buy two paintings — a Jackson Pollock and a Willem de Kooning — in one of the largest ever private art deals....
...Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in This Time is Different, count over the past two centuries 250 defaults on external sovereign debt, which have of course continued up to the present....
...Before the gavel came down on Wednesday evening — as Sotheby’s set to work on auctioning off multimillion dollar works by Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hockney — the auction house on New...
...These included Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, though it took him a year to feel sure about Stella....
...Kenneth Griffin: a billionaire hedge fund manager said to have an insatiable appetite for historic and expensive art....
...And another Hollywood magnate, David Geffen, recently sold a work that would be on many lists — De Kooning’s “Interchange” (1955), which went to Chicago hedge-funder Kenneth Griffin....
...The writer is a professor of economics at Harvard ——————————————- Letters in response to this article: Paper money has its advantages / From Alex J Pollock Electronic currency isn’t free from crime /...
...From Alex J Pollock....
...Pollock, too, twined symbolism into his painterly macramé....
...For once the vendors – an Austrian family – were more mysterious than the buyer, who was Kenneth Thomson, the Canadian press baron who became Lord Thomson of Fleet....
...Are they melting ice-creams, as Kenneth Clark mocked, or “the work, well thought out”, according to Pissarro, “of a man with a will of his own, pursuing every nuance of elusive effect, such as no other artist...
...Yet until the 1940s, Renoir’s radiant, painterly painting was regarded as the unrivalled height of Impressionism, with taste-setters such as Kenneth Clark rating him above both Monet and Manet....
...If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I’d go for the Pollock every time.”...
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